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L. G. MILKES.

REVERSIBLE CUFF.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21. 1918.

Patented July 8, 1919.

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LEAH G. MILKEs,oE MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, Assreno'n T vnivuslivrnnurnc'runa.

ING COMPANY, or M NNEAPO IS, MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION or. MINNESOTA.

REVERSIBLE CUFF.

Specification of Letters Patent. I

Application filed July 2'7, 1918. Serial No. 247,059.

5 State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reversible Cuffs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to reversible shirt cufis and is in the nature of a modification of the cuff disclosed and broadly claimed in my pending application S. N. 231,199, filed April 27, 1918.

Particularly, the present invention has for its object to provide a reversible cufiv which is adapted to be overlapped and buttoned together by a single or common button, regardless of which side out the reversible cult is turned.

The present reversible cuff, like that of my prior application, is a pocket-like structure, that is, the cuff is made with two socalled flaps that are stitched together at their outer edges and ends, and one of which flaps is attached to a shirt sleeve, while the other flap is left loose at its inner edge, thus providing a cuff that is adapted to be turned inside out.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a sleeve with the improved cufi' attached, the said cuff being turned with-its loose flap on the inner side of the cuff, the said inner side of the cuff being exposed chiefly in view;

Fig. 2 shows the same adjustment of the culf as illustrated in Fig. 1, but views the same from the back or side of the cuff Fig. 3 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1, but showing the cuff turned with its loose flap on the outer side of the cult and Figs. 1 and 3 are diagrammatic cross sections of the cuff, but Fig. 1 corresponds in its adjustment to Figs. 1 and 2, while Fig. 3 corresponds in its adjustment to Fig. 3.

he numeral 4 indicates a sleeve which may be assumed to be the sleeve of a mans shirt. The cuff, as already indicated, is made up of two flaps 5 and 6. The so-called ap 5, as shown, is made two-ply, while the flap 6, as shown, is single ply but might also be made double ply. The two flaps, at their outer edges and ends, are preferably connected b French seams which give the cuff a finis ed appearance, regardless of which side out it is turned.

Near one end of the cufi, the flaps 5 and 6 are provided, respectively, with button holes 5 and 6 that aline in both adjustments of the cuff. Near the other end of the cuff, the flap 5 is provided with a button 5', and alined therewith, the flap 6 is provided with a button hole 6 This relative arrangement of button and buttonholes and flaps is important and makes possible the following use of the button in connection with the buttonholes.

In the adjustment of the cuff shown in Figs. 1, 2 and l the loose flap 6 is inside of the cuff, and in this adjustment, the button 5* projects on that side of the flaps 5 that is away from the buttonholes 6 and then stands in position to be inserted through the alined button holes 5 and 6 In the adjustment of the cuff shown in Figs. 3 and 3 the loose flap 6 is on the outside of the cufl, and in this adjustment, the button 5 is turned toward and must be passed through the alined buttonhole 6", so that it may'then be inserted through the alined buttonholes 5 and 6*. Thus it will beseen that a single button in both adjustments of the cuff serves to fasten the sleeve. This is an extremely simple and eflicient arrangement.

The purpose of turning the cuff inside out is, of course, to afiord a clean outer cuff surface after one-surface of the cuff has been soiled.

This particular design of the cuff is especially adapted for use on low-priced shlrts where it is not desirable touse cufi buttons, but rather to use an attached button where it is further desirable to have a reversible cufi.

What I claim is: v

A sleeve having a reversible cufl' made up Patented Jun s, 1919;

of two flaps, the said flaps being connected the said two flaps, near one end of the suit, In testimony whereof I affix my signature havlng registering buttonholes, one of said in presence of tWo Witnesses.

flaps, near the other end of the cuff having LEAH G. MILKES. an attached button, and the other flap hzw- Witnesses:

5 ing a buttonhole registering'with said but CLARA DEMAREST,

ton. BERNICE G. BAUMANN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents esch, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D.'0'. 

